![]() Next, once in the wilderness, Mowat writes with awe and wonder for his lupine subjects, and with simple respect for the few humans he encounters. It's decidedly over-the-top and very amusing. The first part of the book is a send-up of government bureaucracy, and of academic researchers. Mowat's writing, in fact, transcends nature writing or any other genre. His descriptions of the wolves are incredibly vivid, some of the finest nature writing I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Mowat camped in very close proximity to wolf families and was able to observe them in almost all aspects of their daily lives. Armed with faulty equipment and faulty assumptions, Mowat discovered that everything the government - and all of society - believed about wolves was false. Farley was originally working for the government, sent to study how to control the wolf population that was supposedly laying waste to caribou herds. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves, first published in 1963, chronicles three seasons that Mowat spent observing wolves in the Keewatin Barrens, an area north of Manitoba, in the Northwest Territories. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm so glad I did! It's a short, easy-to-read book that would appeal to any nature lover, not only wolf enthusiasts like me. (He was incredibly prolific.) When visiting Russell Books in September, I noticed a copy of Never Cry Wolf and picked it up. I have read many essays and op-eds by Farley Mowat, the legendary Canadian naturalist, but until now, had never read any of his many books. ![]()
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